slips,trips & falls

[Guest]

Any embarrassing slips,trips or falls on the ice storys.

Here is one of mine- I get to the lake unload the truck grab the rope to pull the shack out I take my vary first step on the ice WEEEEEE feet strait up in the air, also three other people standing there. I get up and procede to the hot spot, on my way out I step in someones 10 inch hole that was neatly covered up, went in up to my knee. I started thinking maybe this is a sign that I'm not to be out on the ice that day. Why is it that when you fall down you look around to see if any one was looking at you.

Have a safe ice fishing season.

[Paul Rohweller]

Last winter up at the upper red lake crappie contest I took a nasty one. I had just finished drilling my share of holes (well over an hours worth of drilling with a new strikemaster) And I was plum tuckered out and the contest was about to get underway. On my way back to leers trailer to return the auger I slipped and fell flat on my back so hard it knocked the wind out of me. I ended up laying there for a minute or two, oodles of people gawking at me asking if I was ok, new auger fell on top of me, luckly nothing was broke on either. Jeez I felt like an one-who-thinks-I-am-silly. You know those ice cleats we sell here at fishing minn? Good investment! lolol Paul

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Paul Rohweller
Pine to Prairie Guide Service
218-962-3387
http://fishingminnesota.com/pinetoprairie

[Guest]

Once at predawn I stepped in about a 4 acre spudbar hole. Went in up to my crotch. Wow. It had been raining all night, lots of water on the ice. Had to do the backstroke to get out. Got soaking wet. Sat in shack with 2 colemans and a burner, buck naked. Took almost two hours to dry clothes.

[Guest]

Forgot to mention the serious Costanza syndrome.

[curt quesnell]

I was a witness to the Rohweller tumble
on Red Lake. It is amazing the kind of
fall a person can take and get back up.

I take one good hit each winter somewhere,
somehow but never in front of 3000 people
like my buddy Paul (Yet).

Curt Quesnell

[cluelessfisherman]

Red lake must be the place for spills. I took a big spill last year!

Was around new years - when there wasn't any snow yet on Red.

Was up with a few friends - one decided to set his pole down to come over and chat - his girl friend was busy playing with her new video camera zooming at the tip ups and holes - when she said "you might want to check on your pole over there" - I look up and see my buddies pole scooting across the ice as fast as it can go. I jump up and run over as fast as I can and hit the skids to stop and grab the half submerged pole when both feet go straight up in the air. I too completely knocked the wind out of me - could have swore I broke my back right then and there. After a couple minutes of laying on the ice I regained my posture and we reviewed the video footage and saw that it was all caught on tape!! I can still see it - the zoom of the pole scooting across the ice and then me coming in from the side of the screen getting some good air time before landing dead on the ice!

By the way, we missed the fish, but got the pole back minus the jig - just another URL gator attack!

Clueless - -

[This message has been edited by cluelessfisherman (edited 11-02-2002).]

[Fish Toys]

Cluelessfisherman
Hey better send a copy of that one to America’s funniest home videos!
It might be worth some$$$$$$$$
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[Steve Foss]

I was alone on a NW Wisconsin lake last February. On a spot blow clear of snow. Left my ice cleats at home. Fired up the Strikemaster and started drilling 10-inch holes. Had her going full bore when the blades caught on something in the hole. It was like a cartoon, where the coyote's trying to drill to get to the roadrunner and it catches and he has no grip on the ice because he left his stupid cleats at home and he's still hanging onto the auger and it's spinning him around the hole and his mitten's caught on the throttle so he can't slow down and the thing finally throws him off and he lands a** over teakettle on the ice.

Alone. Good thing no one was fishing anywhere around.

Got the auger shut off and quieted down my heart and was thankful that no one saw.

Guy starts laughing at me and holds up a beer as a salute. He's standing on his deck on the shore about 100 yards away.

I went and had a beer with him. Beer's always good.

[Guest]

Then thers me out on the ice on the absolute windiest day of the winter. of I remember it well. Like a moron a i didn't wear any cleats. I was pulling my otter across the lake, At times I was blown backwards standing up. The snow was patchy from the. Then the mother of all gust comes and blows me backwards.....still goin backwards, I continued to stand, Then wham flat on my back when my heels hit some snow. smacked my head and watched the stars. Called it early on that trip.